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You average independent standard Cauchy random variables. What is the distribution of the average?
- AApproximately normal for large , by the central limit theorem
- BStandard Cauchy, for every
- CA point mass at zero in the limit, by the law of large numbers
- DCauchy with scale , shrinking like a normal average would
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